Intro To Mental Health Problems Flashcards

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Psychotherapy

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Talking therapy that aims to help you deal with emotional problems and mental health disorders

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Psychotherapy root word Psyche + therapeia meaning

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Soul + healing

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Counseling

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Short term, shallower experience, focus on immediate problems

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Psychotherapy

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Long term, deeper level of experience

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5
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Both counseling and psychotherapy are ____, and the terms are interchangeable in modern society

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Talking therapies

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Necessity for therapy is

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Rising

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7
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What percent of the population has a mental health problem

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10.7%

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The four d’s

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Deviance, dysfunction, distress, danger

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Prevalence

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Proportion of the population who have a specific disorder in a given time

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Point prevalence

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At a specific point in time

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Period prevalence

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At any point in a given time period

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Lifetime prevalence

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At some point in life up to the time of assessment

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Incidence

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The number of new cases of a disorder arising over a given period

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Depression symptoms

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Persistent low mood, loss of interest in activities, irritability, reduced ability to think, disrupted sleep, changes to appetite

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Excessive or ongoing worry about multiple events, difficulty controlling worry

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Social anxiety disorder

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Persistent fear and anxiety about social situations

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Phobia

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Persistent fear of specific object or situation

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Reoccurring distressing thoughts, followed by repetitive behaviors that aim to minimize the distress

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Bipolar disorder

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A cyclical mood disorder of depression and mania or hypo mania

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Mania/hypomania

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Inflated self esteem, grandiosity, racing thoughts, psychomotor agitation, increased risk taking

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Bipolar disorder I

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Alternating mania and depression

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Bipolar Disorder II

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Co-occurring depressive episodes and hypomania

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Schizophrenia

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Characterized by fundamental distortions in thinking

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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking and behaviors

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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Anhedonia, avolition, reduced speech output and emotional expression
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Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia
Slower thinking, difficulty making decisions, easily distracted
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People with anorexia lack the insight
That their behavior is problematic
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People with bulimia do have insight
That their behavior is problematic
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Cluster A personality disorders
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal
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Cluster B
Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic
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Cluster C
Avoidant, dependent, Obsessive-compulsive
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Sort: paranoid
A
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Sort: schizoid
A
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Sort: schizotypal
A
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Sort: antisocial
B
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Sort: borderline
B
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Sort: histrionic
B
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Sort: narcissistic
B
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Sort: avoidant
C
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Sort: dependent
C
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Sort: obsessive compulsive
C
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Depression stats
4-10% will experience depression in their lifetime
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Anxiety stats
1-7% europe
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Bipolar stats
4 million cases in UK
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Percentage of bipolar in US
2%
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Schizophrenia stats
1% lifetime risk
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ED stats
1.6 M ppl in UK
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PTSD common symptoms
Flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, anxiety symptoms
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Traumatic event
Involves having experienced, witnessed, or been confronted with an event or events involving actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others
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PTSD stats
1 in 20 reported PTSD in the adult psychiatric morbidity survey